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we'll have more on the deadly storms slamming much of a country with snow and arctic cold in a moment, but first, the stunning new indictment of alec baldwin. why prosecutors once again charged the actor with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2021 shooting death on the set of the movie "rust." what led them to bring back the criminal case nine months after initial charges were dropped. plus, cbs news joins the u.s. navy in the middle east. cbs's charlie d'agata gets a firsthand look at u.s. warships home to the 4,000 sailors and marines in the region trying to% keep the peace. but we want to begin with the second major winter storm in less than a week dropping heavy snow from washington to philadelphia to new york. those snowy roadways were the backdrop for the drama that unfolded when a single-engine cessna caravan with seven people on board was forced to make an emergency landing on a busy highway in virginia. cbs's christina ruffini is on the scene. >> tower, mayday, mayday. >> reporter: an unexpected sight for drivers on this snowy

road in virginia today. >> i look up and there is a, you know, a plane 20 feet above me. >> reporter: the small commuter airline carrying seven passengers and two crew members made an emergency landing 4 minutes after taking off from nearby dulles airport. >> if i was probably speeding, they probably would have landed on top of me. >> reporter: the plane made it up to about 1100 feet before having to divert and make an emergency landing on the loudoun county parkway. a ground stop at washington reagan froze travel plans earlier this morning with over 1,000 cancellations nationwide, new york's laguardia and new jersey's newark among the most hard-hit. constance douglas is trying to make it home to costa rica and only it as far as newark. >> very frustrated. that is the bad thing of traveling. >> reporter: wintry conditions are pummeling roads. at new york, a car trying to pass a semi crashed into a snow plow. no one was injured. in nutley, new jersey, the department of transportation is trying to drive home road

safety. cbs correspondent meg oliver is there. >> reporter: here in new jersey, salt crews are working overtime to coat the roads of massive amounts of salt before freezing temperatures overnight to reduce crashes. are you running low on salt? >> well, we have a lot of salt that we used in the last storm. it was an 18-hour storm. used a lot of salt with a lot of ice. but we are okay. >> reporter: and dangerous temperatures are also prompting rescues. >> just stay right on your belly. >> reporter: in michigan, body camera video captured a police officer risking his life to rescue a 65-year-old man who fell through a frozen lake on thursday. even the victim's dog, ruby, helped get him out. no injuries were reported in the landing here, and crews towed% away the wreckage before we came on air. now temperatures are expected to drop into the teens making roads like the one behind me and throughout the region potentially very dangerous over the weekend. norah? >> norah: yeah. good news that no one was hurt in that emergency landing. christina ruffini, thank you so much.

well, for a look ahead at the snow and brutal cold this weekend and another storm in the west, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, norah. our latest winter storm causing all of the problems there on the east coast is finally moving out, just some lingering mountain snow and lake-effect snow also hanging around through the rest of this evening. bitterly-cold temperatures once again return to so much of the country. could see wind chills 20 to even 30 degrees below zero this weekend. an atmospheric river bringing inches and feet of snow to the west. before a warm up for a lot of the country, and ice threat early in the week. also, the flood threat also exists, and after that by the end of next week, norah, temperatures will be as warm as 60 degrees or warmer in dallas to almost 80 degrees in charleston, south carolina. >> norah: that sounds good. chris warren, thank you. now to the breaking news about actor alec baldwin, charged for the second time for the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the

movie "rust." special prosecutors brought the new case after getting a second expert analysis of the gun used in the shooting. cbs's jonathan vigliotti has more on this surprising reversal. >> reporter: alec baldwin once again facing involuntary manslaughter charges for his handling of a gun on the set of the movie "rust" that killed cinematographer halyna hutchins. a new mexico grand jury says the actor had total disregard or indifference for the safety of others. since the shooting, more than two years ago, the case against baldwin has been a legal roller coaster. the indictment comes one year after he was initially charged. that charge dismissed last april. >> everything about the moves in this case had to do with various analysis of the weapon itself. >> reporter: baldwin has always maintained his innocence, beginning in his first meeting with investigators. >> it should have been a cold gun, with no rounds inside or dummy rounds.

i take the gun out slowly, i turn, i cocked the pistol, bang, it goes off -- she hits the ground. >> reporter: at first the fbi concluded the gun could not have gone off accidentally, but the gun was later re-examined with replacement parts. >> the defense will definitely have experts to say, this gun is not the gun that was the original gun. the original gun was so old that it fell apart when it was time for analysis. >> reporter: baldwin, in a statement, saying, "we look forward to our day in court." >> alec baldwin has two courts. he has a jury, but he also has a court of public opinion because he has a career that he doesn't want to see go down the drain. >> reporter: hannah gutierrez-reed, whose job it was to inspect these weapons on set, faces an identical charge. her trial begins next month. meanwhile, filming of this movie, it wrapped last spring. at this point it's unclear when

and where it will be released, norah. >> norah: jonathan vigliotti, thank you. now to some more breaking news out of uvalde, texas. a grand jury will consider possible criminal charges against police officers over their failed response to the school shooting at robb elementary that left 19 students and two teachers dead. according to multiple local reports. and this comes one day after the justice department released a scathing review detailing the critical failures of 376 officers who waited more than an hour to take action against the gunman. now to "america decides" and the republican primary in new hampshire, now just four days away. there is new indication that republicans are closing ranks around donald trump. our caitlin huey-burns has been crisscrossing the granite state with the candidates. >> reporter: donald trump back in new hampshire tonight with a major boost. days before polls open, snagging the endorsement of south carolina senator tim scott. >> oh, man, i'm so excited for the announcement tonight. >> reporter: that announcement is a setback for nikki haley, with her home state senator rejecting his former governor.

haley is a distant second in the polls, and she is taking the gloves off, challenging trump to tell the truth. >> when trump says that i'm trying to kill social security, that is a lie. >> reporter: on social media, trump has falsely questioned haley's eligibility to run for president and refers to her indian ancestry, mocking her first name, nimarata, although she has used her middle name, nikki, all her life. she was born in the united states. do you think that the attacks that trump is waging against you are racist? >> i mean, look, i'll let people decide what he means by his attacks. what we know is, look, he is clearly insecure, if he goes and does these temper tantrums, he is insecure, he knows that something is wrong. i don't sit there and worry about whether it's personal or what he means by it. >> oh, yeah. it's disgusting. >> reporter: independent voter dan o'donnell says his vote for haley is a vote against trump. he asked haley to assure him she

would not join trump's ticket as vice president. >> she says, it's totally off the table. >> reporter: she told you it's totally off the table? >> totally off the table. very adamant. >> reporter: haley said today she is staying through the south carolina primary, where florida governor ron desantis is trying to salvage his struggling campaign. >> as long as i'm in the hunt, that tells me that i'm seeing a pathway. >> reporter: tim scott is the 25th senator to endorse donald trump. the former president now has the support of over half of republicans in congress. the latest sign the party is rallying around his campaign. norah? >> norah: caitlin huey-burns there at an event tonight, thank you. well, president biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today for the first time in nearly a month. the white house says they discussed biden's vision for a two-state solution with the palestinians. netanyahu appears to be ruling

out an independent palestinian state, saying israel must have security control over areas west of the jordan river. president biden was also insistent today that the u.s. military will continue attacks against houthi terrorists in yemen, despite admitting that what they've done so far has not worked to stop the terrorists from attacking commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. cbs's charlie d'agata takes us on board a u.s. navy destroyer with a firsthand look at the critical mission there to keep the region safe. >> all right, so you can see right now... >> reporter: inside the combat information center, the navy's lead guided missile destroyer. >> these are enemy missiles... >> reporter: a navy officer identifies three incoming missiles. >> standby for missiles at one, two, three. >> reporter: the order goes out to shoot them down. then a direct hit on all three. >> so what you saw here was exactly what you would see if you were on one of the platforms in the red sea. >> reporter: this is just a simulation. houthi threats in the red sea are very real. we flew to the uss arleigh burke destroyer today from the

uss bataan. both warships are part of a combined 4,000-strong force of u.s. marines and sailors across the deployment here. commander ty brown showed us the vast array of weapons packed onto destroyers like this, from torpedoes to harpoon missiles, capable of hitting ships, even stocked with tomahawk cruise missiles. this is exactly the same kind of ship with exactly the same missile defense systems that have been taking down houthi missiles, even as houthi rebels continue to step up attacks on the u.s. and its allies. a houthi missile targeted the uss laboon just a few days ago. u.s. military officials say it was shot down by a fighter jet. and the iranian-backed terrorist group continues to target commercial ships, despite repeated u.s. bombardment by air and sea.

and although the arleigh burke is currently at sail in the mediterranean... the commander and his crew are fully aware of rising tensions across the region. >> i identify as they are operating at what i call a really high tempo right now, significantly higher than we have been operating at the navy for some time. >> reporter: now we are back on board the uss bataan tonight, norah, and the message has been that marines and sailors are specifically trained to handle anything, but with warships and fighter jets already defending against adversaries like the houthis, the fight is already real. as one major here put it to me tonight, you train for years for something that may happen in minutes. >> norah: that's an excellent point, charlie d'agata, thank you. now to two big economic headlines. today, national association of realtors said existing home

sales in the u.s. dropped to a 30-year low in 2023, after mortgage rates climbed to the highest rate in more than two decades. but wall street was in a buying mood today, with both the dow and the s&p 500 closing at record highs. nasdaq also jumped nearly 2% on the day. tonight, we take an in-depth look at a disturbing trend in this presidential election year. a review of cbs news reveals a surge of so-called swatting attempts targeting public officials, including politicians from both parties. cbs's scott macfarlane reports these attacks can en with armed police surprising unsuspecting victims. >> reporter: on christmas day in upstate new york... >> we have multiple units responding to your address. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies raced to the home of republican congressman brandon williams after someone made a hoax call to 911. >> a male voice had called and said, i just shot my girlfriend in the head three times, and i'm going to commit suicide. >> reporter: williams was a victim of swatting. >> hands up! >> reporter: that is when

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latest on the investigation. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. good evening, it is a first alert weather day because of the wave of rain that is lighting up our radar as we speak. so, this is just the first in a parade of storms that will last beyond the week understand. here is what it looks like on the roads right now, be careful, for many of you it was likely a soggy commute home this evening. not an ideal weekend for outdoor activities unless you are willing to brave the rain and yes, there is quite a significant outdoor event happening at levi stadium tomorrow where the 9ers take on green bay. it looks windy right there. will rain interfere with game time? >> i don't think it will interfere with the game play but may for the fan and tailgating experience. take a look at the radar right now. light to moderate rain in the bay area. dry patches showing up, the rain is not as widespread as it was a couple hours ago. m